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BEATO ANGELICO (attr.) | Tebaide | Uffizi, Sala 7 | Versione breve | La narrazione è di Mohammad Aletaha, la voce di Marco Paolini | Leggi la scheda completa dell'opera su uffizi.it    Fra Angelico (attr.) | Thebaid | Room 7  In this painting, no one is alone. This is what struck me when I first approached the Thebaid: it should be a wasteland (the desert near Thebes, Egypt), yet it is a garden; it should be a place of solitude, yet it is filled with relationships. As Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, wrote, the desert had become “a city”. Mashhad is the name of an Iranian holy city; here, an imposing mausoleum was built in the name of the Imam Reza. A once small village was transformed into the most important destination for pilgrims in my country, and a sanctuary built around the mausoleum, creating a city within the city. The heart of the sanctuary is always full of people, even late at night. Many stories can be heard here. Relationships are formed, even among strangers. But when the people